{"title":"Ruth Lupton","description":"\u003cp\u003eRuth Lupton offers insightful explorations into the challenges and developments within education policy and practice. Her works critically examine the impact of educational frameworks, addressing both theoretical and practical dimensions of teaching and learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect thoughtful analysis on literacy and leadership in education, presented with clarity and depth. Lupton’s writing is essential for those interested in understanding how educational strategies influence outcomes in schools and communities.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"great-mistakes-in-education-policy-by-debra-hayes-9781447352457","title":"Great Mistakes in Education Policy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEducation policies should drive success and equity, but in many countries, they are failing to do so. Situating the cases of England and Australia within broader global policy trends, \u003ci\u003eGreat Mistakes in Education Policy\u003c\/i\u003e critically analyses what has gone wrong.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors draw on extensive research in education to review the impact of multiple policies on students, teachers, and schools, with a focus on communities where children and young people need education most. They issue a fundamental challenge to the policy orthodoxies of recent decades and set out a blueprint for making education both better and fairer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596503531756,"sku":"9781447352457","price":71.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781447352457-great-mistakes-in-education-policy.jpg?v=1777928529"},{"product_id":"literacy-leading-and-learning-by-pat-thomson-9781138893436","title":"Literacy, Leading and Learning","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow might educational leaders and teachers improve literacy achievement in schools serving communities experiencing high levels of poverty? This question is the focus of \u003cem\u003eLiteracy, Leading and Learning\u003c\/em\u003e. Drawing on long-term case studies of four primary schools located in these communities, this book describes the difference between what is commonly practised and those practices that have a greater chance of supporting young people’s literacy learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this multi-layered analysis of the effects of policy on practice, the authors: discuss global concerns with literacy policy and testing in view of the growing gaps between rich and poor; examine the effects of the intensification of inequality and entrenched poverty, and the implications for schools; illustrate how deficit discourses pertaining to communities living in poverty are contested in schools; and describe the complexities of sustaining pedagogical and curriculum change to address the problem of unequal educational outcomes in literacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book grapples with some of the most debated questions regarding educational disadvantage, school change, leadership and literacy pedagogy that face educational researchers, policy-makers and practitioners internationally. As well as providing a critique of the risks of current policy rationales, it conveys some hopeful accounts of practice that provide leads for further development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47606403760364,"sku":"9781138893436","price":341.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781138893436-literacy-leading-and-learning.jpg?v=1778153493"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/ruth-lupton.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}